The implications of the company’s structure
In Anchor, Trends in API Authentication, we have already seen the drawbacks for an organization to have, maintain, design, and pay for multiple IdPs to serve the multiple application architectures in its portfolio.
The purpose of this section is to understand the common reasons why this phenomenon occurs.
This aspect is usually connected to the structure of an organization. Mature companies already embrace DevOps, which is the practice of breaking down silos within an organization to ease collaboration and boost productivity. Companies that still work on silos with a lack of DevOps practices applied are more likely to suffer the IdP proliferation problem explained in Chapter 6, Trends in API Authentication, in the The multiple IdP dilemma section.
The reasons are straightforward: lack of communication and cooperation cannot produce a common strategy for a company, and this can result in different views on different areas...
